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In his first days as the newly minted White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci has spent some time deleting old tweets that don't align with his new boss's views.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace said it was an understandable move, and pulled up a 2012 tweet in which Scaramucci advocated for tougher gun control laws.

"We (the USA) has 5% of the world's population but 50% o f the world's guns," the tweet in question said. "Enough is enough. It is just common sense to apply more controls."

Wallace reminded Scaramucci that "all this stuff lives forever," and asked if he still believed that.

"Well, OK, so the answer to the question, and I'm a pro-Second Amendment person. My dad was a hunter, I've got no problem with that," Scaramucci said. "What I was worried about in 2012, in urban centers, if you don't have a little level of gun control, it could lead to more violence."

Scaramucci then reiterated that he deleted his old tweets because they were a "total distraction."

"When I made the decision to take this job, my politics and my political ideas do not matter at all," he said. "What matters is that I am supporting — subordinating all of that to the president's agenda."

The new communications director first announced on Saturday that he would be deleting his previous tweets. "Full transparency: I'm deleting old tweets. Past views evolved & shouldn't be a distraction. I serve @POTUS agenda & that's all that matters," Scaramucci tweeted.

The tweets

But Twitter users posted several screenshots of Scaramucci's old tweets to preserve them even after they were deleted, and observed how at odds they were with many of President Donald Trump's views:

In one tweet, Scaramucci said in reply to a user who said Hillary Clinton might be "in play" for the 2016 election: "I hope she runs, she is incredibly competent."